As a Senior FinOps Consultant you will help to drive cost optimisation and efficiency in cloud environments. This is a hands-on and customer facing role helping organisations design and implement FinOps capabilities to continuously optimise spend and deliver maximum value from their public cloud investment.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collate, analyse, prioritise cloud cost optimisation recommendations and calculate potential savings and benefits using FinOps tools
* Implement rate and usage optimisations within public cloud environments (Azure, AWS and GCP)
* Create high quality customer facing collateral explaining cloud cost optimisation and FinOps and present them to customers, both technical and non-technical
* Design and implement FinOps maturity roadmaps for customers to accelerate their FinOps capabilities from scratch or optimise existing approach
* Design and deliver training and enablement sessions to raise their understanding of cloud finance and economics
* Collaborate with pre-sales, professional services and managed services to design and implement cost optimisations recommendations and best practices.
Skills / Experience
* Hands on experience implementing FinOps to optimise cloud costs, with deep understanding of levers available to optimise cloud costs
* Strong understanding of the FinOps Framework, capabilities, lifecycle and domains
* Hands on experience with native and 3rd party public cloud cost management tools
* Comfortable public speaking and presenting to a wide range of audiences
* Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and accuracy
* Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
* Highly strong numerical and finance skills to investigate data and spot trends and anomalies
Qualifications
* Certifications such as FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional
* AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
* Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
* Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification
* Valid SC Clearance